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PBL 2022: An ingredient we can't live without, Salts

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Life without   Salts , Salts in our body M. Zuhayr, 8th Silver BMI-B, Islamabad - H-8/4 March 28th, 2022 A closer look proves that the human body isn't complete without salts They're everywhere in our body Usually, people think of salt as just one of the few objects there on the table before you eat, and nothing else. But the actuality is, Salt is near omnipresent, it is found in our body, our blood, our seas, even in our soil, it is everywhere. That is what makes Salts so exceptional and why to this day, it is still studied and we still don't know much about them. But we do know a few things. After this year's (2022) PBL though, I've learnt more things than my first  unanswered questions, here's all. To compensate for the scarcity of a substance not vital but salient to life, the brains of our ancestors and those of other mammals developed powerful strategies for getting and keeping salt. Due to which we know many of the salt mines we have today. Here are j...

PBL: A sophisticated yet astounding look on salt's specialty

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Every  grain counts; Salts M. Zuhayr, 8th Silver A deep dive into what makes Salts so significant in our lives Part of what makes Salts so special is their ample variety of what can be done with them and whenever it can be done with them. They're used for chalk, they're used for medicines and neutralisers, they're used for toothpaste and of course tie-dye, the list goes on! Now that you know just a few of the many uses of salts, let's take a closer look on what you're really here for from what the flamboyant title urges, Tie-dyes and colours, a LOT of them. Here's a  step-by-step of just one of the many uses of using salt to make something completely new.   Part 1: Tie-dying your  socks Say it's a hot and tiresome summer day, 2 p.m, so much so that you go out to get yourself lemonade on your cycle, you come back home and pour it into a glass. While you're drinking the frigid lemonade you look at your socks and realise; ''Hmm, these look kind of d...